Su Qingjin, the orphaned daughter of a military family, hides away in a secluded valley in Jiangnan, using her medical skills to avoid danger. By chance, she saves Xiao Che, the seriously wounded General Who Guards the North, after he falls from a cliff. On one side lies the bitter blood feud of her family’s extermination; on the other, the feelings she can no longer suppress after spending every day with him. As they test and distrust each other, she and the unjustly accused general gradually fall in love.
The capital is a storm of treachery, with corrupt officials framing them and misunderstandings piling up. The two go from understanding each other to breaking apart, then reunite amid the chaos of a troubled age. When the physician’s daughter takes up her needles to break the deadlock and the general draws his sword to protect her heart, duty to country and family collides fiercely with love. The mystery surrounding her father’s death and the schemes at court are gradually laid bare.
This is a journey of two people reaching for each other across life and death, and a deep love that endures through the upheavals of a troubled age. In the end, they retire together, letting peaceful days soothe every storm.
